Chapter 4 - The Hidden Camera

"He didn't break your watch!" Vivian roared, her eyes flashing with a cold, demonic, and utterly terrifying maternal fury.
She stood up slowly, picking up Toby and holding him safely against her chest. She completely ignored the freezing wind whipping her brown braided hair. She didn't look like a defeated, weeping victim anymore. She looked like a highly calculating, extremely dangerous apex predator.
"He didn't even leave his bedroom this morning," Vivian stated clinically, her voice dropping to a freezing, lethal frequency.
"You can't prove that!" Agnes shrieked wildly, completely failing to maintain her sophisticated persona. "I am the matriarch of this family! My word is absolute law!"
"Your word is garbage," Vivian whispered coldly.
Vivian reached into the pocket of her burgundy coat. She didn't pull out a tissue. She pulled out a sleek, highly encrypted smartphone.
"Because Toby requires twenty-four-hour medical monitoring," Vivian explained flawlessly, ensuring the cruel mother-in-law heard every single devastating word, "I installed a heavily encrypted, high-definition nanny camera directly inside the eye of his teddy bear."
Agnes physically staggered backward, her green velvet coat wrinkling as her knees completely buckled. The warm, arrogant safety of her doorway completely evaporated.
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"I've been recording the hallway for three weeks," Vivian continued, her dark eyes locking entirely onto the terrified woman.
👉 Vivian tapped her screen, entirely ready to detonate a nuclear bomb on the wealthy matriarch.